Improvement in windlass water-elevators



R. T. STOKES. Windlasg Water-Elevator.

No. 197,296. Patented Nov. 20, I877.

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UNITED STATES Pn'rnn'r OFFICE.

RUSSELL T. STOKES, OF GABNETT, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINDLASS WATER-ELEVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,296, dated November20, 1877; application filed September 22, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known t at "I, BUssELL T. STOKES, of Garnett, in the county ofAnderson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and ImprovedWater-Elevator, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to means for raising water from wells, and isespecially applicable to bucket-wheels with a center-discharge.

The nature of my invention consists in combining, with an endless chainof buckets of circular or other form, a center discharge wheel, which isconstructed with inclined partitions forming cells, that lead intospouts extending beyond the open side of the wheel, and so constructedand arranged that they will direct the streams of water into a chute ordischarging-trough located beneath the wheelshaft, as will behereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawing, Figure 1 is a section taken in a vertical planethrough the bucket-wheel and one of the buckets of the chain. Fig. 2 isvertical section taken transversely through the curb anddischarge-trough,

showing the edge of the wheel and chain of angular buckets. Fig. 3 is atop view of the elevator. Fig. 4 shows, in section, circular cup-shapedbuckets linked together.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.-

The letter A designates the curb of the well, on top of which the shafta has its bearing in suitable boxes. On this shaft 0. the bucketwheel Bis keyed, being constructed with one side, b, closed, and the otherside, 1;, openthat is to say, the side b is a ring concentric to theshaft Ct, the opening through which ring I term the center-dischargeopening, as all of the water elevated passes through this opening, andis received in an inclined trough or chute, 0, arranged beneath it.Between the two slde plates of the wheel are suitably secured, atregular intervals apart, inclined or curved partitions or guides d,which extend from points near the periphery of the wheel to the inneredge of the wheel b. The guides at conduct the inflowing water down intochutes or spouts g, which are directed downward, upward, and outward,and which are continuations of the partitions or guides. The months orouter ends of the spouts g extend outward beyond the plane of the ringI), so that there will not be any waste of water.

In combination with the wheel B, I employ an endless chain oflifting-buckets, D, which may be of the angular tapering formrepresented in Figs. 1 and 2, or they may be of a conical form, as shownby Fig. 4. The backs of the buckets of Figs. 1 and 2 are hinged.together to form the endless chain; but the conical buckets areconnected together by links h, as shown.

The length of the buckets is such, with respect to the distance betweenthe outer ends of the partitions, that during the rotation of the wheelthey will successively be received in the spaces between the saidpartitions, and empty their contents into the laterallydischargingchutes.

The wheel may be rotated by a crank, G, or in any other suitable manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- In combination with the lifting-buckets D, thecenter-discharge wheel B, constructed with inclined partitions d andlaterally-discharging chutes-or spouts g, arranged over atrough, C,substantially in the manner described.

RUSSELL THOMPSON STOKES.

Witnesses:

J. D. WOODWORTH, L. .K. KIRK.

